Alan Moore Interviews Brian Eno

Legendary author Alan Moore interviews another legend in musician Brian Eno in this 2004 recording taken from the BBC's 'Chain Reaction'

[ThaKid]

This honestly just may be one of the tightest, greatest and most sublime interviews i've ever heard. beyond grateful to have discovered this today. two masters in conversation and the chemistry is uncanny. brilliant

[normanmacfarlane]

That was over way too soon .
I could have listened all day .
Wonderful ❤

[ryanjones]

This is the beauty of the internet. This appeared in my feed because I was searching for Alan Moore things after I came across something the other day that I just can't remember. I know Alan Moore from The Watchmen graphic novel, and V For Vendetta, which admittedly I have only seen the film of, which I like a great deal, but I think Alan hasn't seen it, so I put the graphic novel of it in my Ebay watch list. He seems like a really interesting guy, I am going to get to know his work more. Brian Eno I mainly know as a producer, Talking Heads, Bowie, U2, etc. I also know that Roxy's second album, For Your Pleasure, made an impression on mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame, also another very interesting artist, so I have added it to my lexicon of music that I must know. A random thought that I just had about all of this, is that I remember reading that Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, was familiar with and into Eno's ambient music. I often find this is the case, that creative musicians will often have a very wide variety of interests and influences, that never poke their head-up in their own work, at least not obviously. I am a musician, and dabble just for fun making recordings, somewhat longing for a new way that I can do something that would be fresh and creative, but as he states near the beginning of this interview, it's basically all been done, and whenever you make something that you think is cool, when you show it to someone, they always say "That sounds like...." That's ok, it's still good to make music.

[blatherskite]

I love and respect both of these geniuses, but considered them to be in their own separate orbits and never expected to find them together in the same place. Thanks for uploading this :)

[andrewnorris]

I remember that episode of 'Desert Island Discs' and I do remember Eno requesting a 'giant man-eating spider', This was a great interview, too short but great!

[Alun]

Eno's approach to songwriting has always been very distinct. I have been a fan forty-five years and his work is always so unique.

[clowncarqingdao]

This is awesome. Two of my cutting edge heroes talking together. Amusing, seemingly honest, and interesting. Thank you.

[TheCrimsonLupus]

Two people I would never previously have put together, yet perfectly balanced against each. Great interview, you can sense the respect each has for the other.

[alanscott]

Came here by accident, But what an important, entertaining, and I have to say now historical interview from 2004. politics, the internet, optimism on currency, and new political ideas. Loved the bit about taking passing car reg numbers to the library to view books by reg number ( note those who live in a digital silo) and music learning to hear different. lots packed into this interview..

[zetetick]

Why couldn't they just have kept going for 3 hours?

These 2 venerable gents are both such uniquely interesting artists that more would always be wish Alan or Brian would start doing podcasts with their peers. 🤞

[eggsarnie]

This was a class interview, really inspiring. Will definitely be trying the oblique library car reg strategy! Another good tactic is to read the introductions of whatever's in the non-fiction new book section to get insights into random fields of enquiry you might not otherwise have thought about. Plus the books are usually nice and pristine which I quite like.

[tb-cgvd]

Maybe I was drifting off into sleep but the canned laughter put me in a world where Velma was interviewing Eno in a Scooby Doo episode. Bizarre but brilliant just as I've loved for many years.

[pixelfrenzy]

Chain Reaction is a genius idea... I wish they would do more. Oh yeah and Eno is one of my all-time heroes, and I don't adopt them casually.

[inpraiseoflifeitself]

I never noticed Brian Eno sounds just like Ralph Fiennes in The Grand Budapest Hotel.

[christopherdicicco]

WOW! What a great podcast. Wouldn't be a great collaboration Moore Eno album.

[LucyOLastic]

There is already a lyric generator out there, as a free VSTi by Xoxos. I found it and lost it. It could generate the most surreal nonsense with ease from its inbuilt thesaurus. The lyrical equivalent of those generative software instruments that Xoxos specialised in. Eno would love it.

[suitorjonny]

In the end in Eno requested a radio telescope 😂.

[senglomein]

great interview. One thing that stuck out, since it was most awful; was Brian's "vision" for the future of civilisation? 19:20 is where it sorta starts, and by quoting Noam Chom you're already off to a poor start, but Brian speaks so enthusiastically about dividing oneself up all over the globe for every aspect of life, to your chosing of course, curteousy of the wonderful world wide web....I wonder if he still holds this view.

In my opinion, our loss of physical community and being grounded to your actual surroundings, is one of the biggest issues we face as a species and only seems to be getting worse and more blurred from our view.

[glyph]

Brian Eno is responsible for the trend of sampling?

[c.a.t.]

Eno "completely transform(ed) music in the late 20th and early 21st century"? Really?